The acknowledgements include "Pap Issue 3" (i.e. my Poetry about Poetry magazine, with its logo 
that I created with Postscript). Also mentioned is Lighten-Up Online, another magazine I've been in (and P.N. Review, which I haven't). Light verse? Well, some of it I suppose, but it could just as easily be described as witty, formally playful, etc. I don't think one needs to labour over them, though you may well go back and read some again.
"Plodding" is far from mainstream. "Break in the Line" though it's about line-breaks is the most prosaic piece - a strong Flash contender. "The Red Squirrel" is witty (I thought the squirrel was going to be the author). "Submission Guidelines" offers good advice
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Do not go gentle into that villanelle. Allow yourself a period of remission. Rage, rage against a rhyming hell. |
"xaxa" is the most common rhyme scheme, but there are many other forms. There are rhyming couplets ("The Amazing Adventures of Alphabetsy" is a sort of Abcedarian in couplets). "Rain" (7 lines) and "Half Light" (14 lines) have the same end-rhyme throughout.
Other reviews
- Trevor (goodreads)
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